Document Sciences was bought by EMC a few years back and they have had a fairly solid Component Content Management system.  Todd Lauinger who came over with the acquisition, is going to provide a technical overview. Hoping to learn a few tricks.

• Customer Communications must be:
  • Customized – specific to the customer and the interaction or transaction
  • Regulated – professional, appropriate, and lawfully compliant
  • Automated – minimize cost and reduce human error
  • Personalized -tailored to the recipient and the situation
  • Efficiently produced & delivered -use electronic media or optimized print
  • Archived and indexed- securely stored and easy to find
• Content is created in Documentum, turned into  actual pieces of communication by xPression, and then the result is stored in the Content Repository
• Document Design applications
  • xPresso for Word, InDesign, and Dreamweaver
  • xDesign independent applications
• Currently stores data in own database, but will be stored in Documentum down the road
• Caches content for processing in order to get high-volume performance
• Can to live communications and also large batches with xBatch product
• Provides Web Services for created communications
• Design-Time Integration
  • Store xPresso document template source files in Documentum
  • Browse Documentum for content to link or embed into xPression document templates.
• Run-Time Integration
  • TaskSpace Activity Templates for xPression document production, including xPression document generation in Documentum workflows
  • Automated archival into Documentum
    • Store documents in dynamic folder structures
    • Pass document generation data into the object attributes
    • Automatically trigger workflows once they are stored.
• Lots of configuration options, which seems solid

Off to the bloggers lounge, caffeine, before I head to the xDB session.

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